THE GREAT INDIAN WHITE ELEPHANT!

THE GREAT INDIAN WHITE ELEPHANT! 

           I recently got a mail from a friend who gave me some statistics on the expenditure meted out by our exchequer to RUN THE GREAT INDIAN PARLIAMENT. When I computed the figures and interpolated some more data, the ultimate picture really astonished me. Shocked I asked myself," DO WE REALLY REQUIRE THIS WHITE ELEPHANT". My answer was NO, a big NO. You will ask me," what is the alternative?" My stock reply will be: CONSIDER SWITCHING OVER TO PRESIDENTIAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT WITHOUT A PARLIAMENT. Yes ,we do not need this DEMOCRACY for another 40-50 years. We are not mature enough to practise this. See for yourself.

    
Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament/ Member state Assembly (MP)/ MLA

Monthly Salary Rs 12,000

Expense for Constitution per month Rs 10,000

Office expenditure per month Rs 14,000

Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) Rs 48,000
(eg.For a visit from kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)

Daily DA TA during parliament meets Rs 500

Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train Rs ?
Free For any number of times
(All over India )

Charge for Business Class in flights Rs ?
Free for 40 trips per year
(With wife or P.A.)

Rent for MP hostel at Delhi Rs ?
( Free)

Electricity costs at home Rs ?
Free up to 50,000 units

Local phone call charge Rs ?
Free up to 1,70,000 calls.

TOTAL expense for a MP per year Rs 32,00,000
(Rs 32 LAKHS)TOTAL expense for 5 years Rs 1,60,00,000
(Rs 1.60 Crores)
Add Area Development fund for each MP Rs 10.00 Crores
(At the rate of Rs 2 Crores/MP/year)

TOTAL ON EACH MP Rs 11.60 Crores

Full Parliament(542 MPs) Rs 6287.20 Crores

Add to it Parliament staff, maintenance
of buildings & security(moderate estimates) Rs 713.00 Crores

Total on MPs for 5 years - Approximately- Rs 7000.00 Crores

Add to it expenditure on Elections ---- YOUR GUESS ?

              ( Around 1000-1500 Crores)

GRAND TOTAL Rs 8000-8500 Crores [ A]

 

Computing figures also for
State Assemblies, MLAs
(Each MLA would cost
roughly one third of MP) Say, Rs 3.5--4 Crores

There are around, say, 3500 MLAs

(MAY BE MUCH MORE IN 30 Assemblies)

Total on MLAs in FIVE years Rs 14,000.00 Crores

Add expenditures on Assemblies & staff Say , Rs 6000.00 Crores

Add assembly elections
(300-350 Crores for each assembly) Say , Rs 9000-10,000 Crores

TOTAL ON MLAs & ASSEMBLIES Rs 29,000-30,000 Crores [B]

GRAND TOTAL ON INDIAN EXPERIMENT
WITH DEMOCRACY( A+B) Rs 37000--38,500 Crores

ROUNDING OFF SAY, Rs 40,000 Crores
( EVERY FIVE YEARS )

OR Rs 8,000 Crores every year

NOTE:-

All these are very MODERATE ESTIMATES, FOR WANT OF NON-AVAILABILITY OF ACTUAL DATA. ACTUAL FIGURE MAY ONE AND A HALF TIMES OF IT.

             Do they really deserve this? Think of the GOLDEN QUARDILATERAL & EAST-WEST CORRIDOR PROJECT WHICH required only Rs 28,000 Crores. Think of our Defence Budget WHICH is around Rs One Lakh per year. AND THIS EXPENDITURE on MPs/MLAs IS 12 % of it every year. THINK of our education Budget which is nowhere near this expenditure. GUESS HOW MUCH THIS IS OF THE GDP? How about this as a percentage of deficit annual budget? HOW DO WE REMOVE POVERTY? Simple! BY REMOVING THE POOR---IS IT?
           What do they do to justify this expenditure? They fight; they abuse each OTHER; THEY THROW CHAIRS AND MIKES ON EACH OTHER; THEY SHOUT DOWN AND HOWL AT EACH OTHER IN THAT SANCTUM SANCTORIUM; THEY PASS LAWS WHICH ARE IMPRACTICAL AND NON-IMPLEMENTABLE; THEY DO NOT DEBATE ISSUES CONCERNING THE NATION , THEY WASTE TIME FIGHTING AND DENIGRATING EACH OTHER; THEY DO NOT QUESTION THE BOSS, THEY MERELY RAISE HANDS ON THE COMMAND OF THEIR WHIPS; MOST OF THEM ARE 'DUMBOS' WHO RARELY ATTEND THE PARLIAMENT/ ASSEMBLY.THEY THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW OF THE LAND AND SUPREME COURT HAS NO JURISDICTION OVER THEM. BOW YE SILLY COUNTRYMEN, BEFORE OUR GREAT TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY! MATTERS NOT WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE! WHERE ARE WE HEADING? THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL. PLEASE READ IT, MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN!
          And they are elected by THE PEOPLE OF INDIA , by the largest democratic process in the world. THEY DO NOT NEED ANY QUALIFICATION. But a CLERK must be a GRADUATE. They make LAWS FOR US TO BE LAWLESS THEMSELVES! They can splurge and go on foreign jaunts on our money but the poor common man must die of hunger on the Parliament street in DELHI. This is how all our tax money is being swallowed and common man is burried deep underneath THE HIMALYAN PRICE HIKE on our regular commodities....... Are they sensitive to him? Your guess is mine. INDIA IS SHINING, MY FRIENDS,---THROUGH THE REFLECTED LIGHT OF THE BROKEN PROMISES AND SHATTERED HOPES. INDIA IS RIDING AWAY TO OBLIVION, MY COUNTRY MEN, ON THE BACK OF THESE GREAT WHITE ELEPHANTS. HAIL PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY!

Think of the great democracy we have.............